Author(s)

Yang Xue ¹, He Feng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ International College, Krirk University, Thailand

Corresponding Author

He Feng

ABSTRACT

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the anxiety status of nursing students during the COVID-19 epidemic and analyze the influencing factors in order to provide the basis for psychological intervention.  Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on school nursing students using a convenience sampling method with a self-administered questionnaire and the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). Results: During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing students' SAS scores were 38.93 ±7.53, which were higher than those of the Chinese normative anxiety level and lower than those of nursing students during the SARS pandemic. During the COVID-19 epidemic, education (p = 0.003), perception of media coverage of COVID-19 (p = 0.010), knowledge of COVID-19 (p = 0.001), and the effect of COVID-19 on employment intentions (p = 0.001) were all influential factors of anxiety.  Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the psychology of nursing students, and measures are needed to alleviate nursing student anxiety, especially among college and university students. Students who believe the epidemic is more serious than the news report and students who lack COVID-19-related knowledge need to be given more attention, guided to a correct understanding of the news reports, and actively carry out COVID-19-related health education and psychological interventions in conjunction with the actual situation.

KEYWORDS

COVID-19, Nursing Student, Anxiety, Nurse Education

CITE THIS PAPER

Yang Xue, He Feng, Influencing Factors for Nursing Students' Anxiety During COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Medicine and Health Management (2023) Vol. 4: 11-19. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socmhm.2023.040103.

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